Invitation - Free Online Meditation Zen (Basic Introduction and Meditation Session)

Join me at our next free Online Meditations (Zen Basic Introduction, and Zen Meditation) to learn about the basics of Zen as well as meditate online.

Dates:

Introduction to Zen Meditation: Saturday December 5th, 2010 from 16.00/4:00 pm to 17.00/5:00 pm GMT (Register at Introduction to Zen Meditation)

Zen Meditation Session: Sunday December 5th, 2010 from 17.00/05.00 pm to 18.30/06.30 pm GMT (Register at Zen Meditation Session)

I hope you'll be able to attend and look forward to seeing you!

With best regards,
Dieter

The way to happiness is:
keep your heart free from hate,  your mind from worry. 
Live simple, give much. Fill your life with love. 
Do as you would be done.    
                                                                                (Buddha)

Can't make it? For an introduction into meditation visit Meditation Introduction, for meditation at your own schedule Meditation Session, and for an overview of all future scheduled events Meditation Calendar 

Spiritual versus Material

Spiritual versus Material are not the choices. Everything about this physical manifestational experience is spiritual. It is all the end product of spirit. You have nothing to prove. Be the spiritual you and create like a physical fiend.

--- Abraham

Spiritual Wisdom

Nobody has the right to judge anybody, negatively or positively. These are the ways of dominating people. When you judge someone you are trying to interfere in his life, which is not your business.
A real, authentic man simply allows people to be themselves.

Dharma

Thanks - Online Meditation

Just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate your enthusiam and support during and after our first Online Meditation (Zen)! I'm already working on setting up a schedule for regular sessions (quite a challenge to find the proper timeslot so it suits everybody around the world :-)). Stay tuned for more information!

Dieter (Online Meditation)

Spiritual Wisdom

"If you light a lamp for someone else it will also brighten your path." ~Buddha

Enlightenment – The Search

Searching for Enlightenment is like searching for warm water while you are standing in warm water at a Caribbean beach.

Let’s define Enlightenment as the conscious recognition of your true Self. The One Self, the Divine Self, the Infinite Self. The Self that is One with God. You are this now. You have always been this and will always be this. So as long as you are searching you cannot find the Self. When you tire of the search and surrender out of exhaustion you will then find what you were seeking and always were to begin with. The search creates the illusion of two, the searcher and the One being searched for, when there really is only One.

There is nothing wrong with spiritual searching. It is perfectly normal. But if you are tired of searching and want, more than anything in the world, to experience Enlightenment, then this is probably a good place to relax, read, practice, listen and ask questions.

Spiritual searching can be quite addictive. It can lead us into dark corners, bright lights, ups and downs. It can be fulfilling and exhausting. Most spiritual seekers I have met over the years are quite happy searching. The prefer spending their lifetime exploring one or more spiritual paths. They would rather seek enlightenment than find it. There are many who believe that only the great gurus of India or saints of the past can attain enlightenment. There are some who believe that enlightenment leads to instant health, wealth and magical abilities. I have not found any of this to be true.

Jon Shore

Deadline Special Invitation Free Online Meditation (Zen Basic Introduction)

Join me at our first free Online Meditation (Zen Basic Introduction) to learn both about the basics of Zen as well as online meditation.

Date: Sunday November 21, 2010 from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm GMT

I hope you'll be able to attend and look forward to seeing you!

Register HERE

The way to happiness is: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simple, give much Fill your life with love. Do as you would be done. (Buddha)

With best regards,
Dieter

I Can Do It! At Sea - Caribbean

January 28 – February 4, 2011
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*Please note: this offer is valid for new bookings only and cannot be combined with any other discounted offer. The discount is applicable to those attending the seminar programs only. Offer applies to the first two passengers in the cabin and is not applicable to third or fourth passengers sharing cabin. $650 cancellation fee applies through 11/11/2010. No refunds from 11/12/2010 through date of sailing.

Spiritual Wisdom

He who is attached to things will suffer much.
He who saves will suffer heavy loss.
A contented man is never disappointed.

Lao Tzu

Reminder Special Invitation Free Online Meditation (Zen Basic Introduction)

Join me at our first free Online Meditation (Zen Basic Introduction) to learn both about the basics of Zen as well as online meditation.

Date: Sunday November 21, 2010 from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm GMT

I hope you'll be able to attend and look forward to seeing you!

Register HERE

The way to happiness is: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simple, give much Fill your life with love. Do as you would be done. (Buddha)

With best regards,
Dieter

Spiritual Wisdom

Not knowing how near the Truth is, people seek it far away. What a pity! They are like one who, in the midst of water, cries out in thirst so imploringly. ~Zen master Hakuim

Reminder Special Invitation Free Online Meditation (Zen Basic Introduction)

Join me at our first free Online Meditation (Zen Basic Introduction) to learn both about the basics of Zen as well as online meditation.

Date: Sunday November 21, 2010 from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm GMT

I hope you'll be able to attend and look forward to seeing you!

Register HERE

The way to happiness is: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simple, give much Fill your life with love. Do as you would be done. (Buddha)

With best regards,
Dieter

Inspirational Thought

When confusion reigns, it is easy to remember this truth: I am not my thoughts, nor my emotions, nor my sensory perceptions, nor my experiences. I am not the contents of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which everything happens. I am consciousness. I am the Present. I Am.

Eckhart Tolle

“You only lose what you cling to.” -Buddha

If there’s one thing we all have in common it’s that we want to feel happy; and on the other side of that coin, we want to avoid hurting. Yet we consistently put ourselves in situations that set us up for pain.

We pin our happiness to people, circumstances, and things and hold onto them for dear life. We stress about the possibility of losing them when something seems amiss. Then we melt into grief when something changes—a lay off, a break up, a transfer.

We attach to feelings as if they define us, and ironically, not just positive ones. If you’ve wallowed in regret or disappointment for years, it can seem safe and even comforting to suffer.

In trying to hold on to what’s familiar, we limit our ability to experience joy in the present. A moment can’t possibly radiate fully when you’re suffocating it in fear.

When you stop trying to grasp, own, and control the world around you, you give it the freedom to fulfill you without the power to destroy you. That’s why letting go is so important: letting go is letting happiness in.

TinyBuddha

Special Invitation Free Online Meditation (Zen Basic Introduction)

Join me at our first free Online Meditation (Zen Basic Introduction) to learn both about the basics of Zen as well as online meditation.

Date: Sunday November 21, 2010 from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm GMT

I hope you'll be able to attend and look forward to seeing you!

Register HERE

The way to happiness is: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simple, give much Fill your life with love. Do as you would be done. (Buddha)

With best regards,
Dieter

The Ego

The ego-self is the root that causes our pain.
Our pains are all because of something that has to do with "I".
The less any happenings affect me, the less intense the pain.
Desire is the most difficult fire for human beings to control.

Dharma

On Meditation

Mastery of the mind leads to wisdom.
Practice meditation.
Stop all vain talk.

Amritabindu Upanishad

On Meditation

The word "meditation" and the word "medicine" come from the same root. Medicine means that which heals the physical, and meditation means that which heals the spiritual. Both are healing powers.

Osho

Meditation Thought

I am existing. Go deep into this feeling. Just sitting, go deep into this feeling ― I am existing, I am. Feel it, don't think it, because you can say it in the mind ― I AM ― and it is futile. Your head is your undoing. Don’t go on repeating in the head I am, I am existing. It is futile, it is useless. You miss the point.

Feel it deep down in your bones. Feel it all over your body. Feel it as a total unit, not in the head. Just feel it ― I am. Don’t use the words “I am”.

Don’t make it a mantra, and sitting, don’t say, “I am existing.” There is no need. Everyone knows, and you know already that you are existing; there is no need, it is futile. Feel it ― I am existing. Feeling is a different thing, totally different.

Try it. And you can do it anywhere. Just riding on a bus, or traveling in a train, or just sitting, or lying down on your bed, try to feel existence as it is; don’t think about it.

When you start feeling existence, the whole world becomes alive to you in a totally new way; you have not known it. Then you pass through the same street and the street is not the same, because now you are grounded in existence. You meet the same friends but they are not the same, because you are different.

When you are rooted, you are one with the whole, and the existence exists for you. You are not a beggar; you become an emperor suddenly.

And while feeling this, don’t create a limit to it. Feel it illimitably. Don’t create a boundary to it; there is none. It ends nowhere. The world begins nowhere; the world ends nowhere. Existence has no beginning and no end. You also don’t have any beginning; you also don’t have any end.

Osho